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R. Mindwalker · Mar 15, 2006, 10:19 AM // 10:19

BUMP,

BTW i lost my ass laughing any one found it??

Killin_Frenzy · Mar 18, 2006, 09:18 AM // 09:18

LOL

It took me 3hrs to download (56k speed cap

) but gawd was it worth it.

Wish the grawl looked like that in game.

Goats17 · Mar 18, 2006, 05:11 PM // 17:11

great job, again. hope that there is more in the future

Goats17 · Mar 18, 2006, 05:12 PM // 17:12

(obvious bump)

Dragonborn · Mar 18, 2006, 10:47 PM // 22:47

fantastic!

Sidra · Mar 18, 2006, 11:10 PM // 23:10

brilliant. absolutely brilliant. you should make one with "Party Starter"/Will Smith and you can guess what you'd have to film then... *thinks of a giant plaza filled with dancing elementalist chicks* lol jk.

Queen · Mar 19, 2006, 09:35 AM // 09:35

Fantastic!! /clap

Shoitaan · Mar 19, 2006, 03:21 PM // 15:21

Easily the most.. "proffessional" game vid I've seen if nothing else. Great vid man, great vid

How did you do the person walking in the foreground thing?

1) Filmed yourself walking while slowed, looped the animation after cutting yourself out of many excessive amounts of frames?
2) Have something which lets you crack the GW's dat file and view the models
3) some other method? :/

I'd really like to know :/

Kazmax · Mar 20, 2006, 03:06 PM // 15:06

Wow...I like it :-D Make more!
Hehe good edits! U use camtasia?

Francis Demeules · Mar 20, 2006, 06:17 PM // 18:17

/clap x10

Man, that is an excellent video clip.

4runner · Mar 20, 2006, 06:29 PM // 18:29

LOL Cooool!! DUDE!

Ninetail Trickster · Mar 20, 2006, 06:40 PM // 18:40

Excellent execution, excellent editting...
I'm going to go watch it again, now. And like ten more times. Today.

Hoyt · Mar 20, 2006, 08:35 PM // 20:35

Laughed so much I wet a little.

Anet needs to seriously consider hiring you do do a cut-scene or two.
Then nobody would mind when a newb wants to watch 'em.

Hervorragende Arbeitsleistung!

The Mighty Toe · Mar 20, 2006, 08:41 PM // 20:41

Now THAT is funny

Moa Bird Cultist · Mar 20, 2006, 08:52 PM // 20:52

That is one sweet video man! Can't thank you enough for making what is undoubtedly the best Guild Wars vid I've ever seen

6/5, 12/10, 200% BOOOOOOOOOM!

thor hammerbane · Mar 20, 2006, 11:24 PM // 23:24

Great video...not a fan of the song though :P

Kazmax · Mar 21, 2006, 02:32 AM // 02:32

How did u record this? I try to record with camtasia, and it can't get enough FPS even when I set it to 500.

JackMcDaniel · Mar 21, 2006, 11:59 PM // 23:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blade Rez

Another question. I kind of know how you made the video. Your char walking is on a different layer than the background which you filmed first person walking backwards right? My question is how did you film and cut out the background of video. Good job again. I'm guessing that was with AE. Also mouth animations always get me. I always thought they were done with Flash, I'm guessing AE. Could you either PM me or Post up to answer my questions.Lol i love watching this movie. Also, Recorder?

Hi to all and thank you for all the comments about my video

Ok, I'll try to explain how I created this movie. Please excuse me for my bad english, I'll try my best and I hope you'll understand most parts

At first I changed my E/Mo to E/W so it was possible to use the Dolyak Signet for slow walking. I recorded a short walking sequence infront of a bright plain hill in the desert:

For capturing I use FRAPS with a resolution of 1024x768 at 25 fps.
Now I imported the videofile with the walking sequence into Adobe After Effects and exported one loop cycle (21 pictures) as a photoshop-picture-sequence.
Now I cut out the background by using the mask tool in Photoshop for each of the 21 frames (Most frustrating part of all

);

I re-imported all the pictures as psd-sequence into my After Effects Project and looped the sequence several times to receive a walk-animation.
But how to make Luke "singing" ?

I created a few face-expressions for luke in Photoshop:

I opened the "face-pictures" together with the song ("Boom! Shake the Room!") in Adobe Premiere and matched the face frame-by-frame to the vocals. After that I exported the timeline to an uncompressed avi-file. So I had some kind of "singing-mouth-movie".

Now I changed back to After Effects and imported the mouth-animation. Next step was to put the moving-mouth over the original face. But there was a little problem: If you take a look at the walk-animation you can see Luke's head moving left and right while walking. So I used After Effects Motion-Tracker to make the new head follow the old one:

Motion-Tracker controls in After Effects:

Mapping the new face over the old one by using a mask and motion-tracker-data:

Luke is walking and singing now:

Ok, and of course I added some backgrounds from the game, some effects and emotes to complete the movie.

If you have any question regarding the video, feel free to send me a pm or an email.
Thanks and good night (it's late in Germany

)
Jack

Kazmax · Mar 22, 2006, 02:31 PM // 14:31

wow....thanks very much.

Lucian · Mar 26, 2006, 01:28 AM // 01:28

Awesome! Don't know what else to say. A friend told me to look for this because it was "good." Heh... understatement. Far exceeded my expectations. The best game video I've seen.

And thanks for sharing the "making of."